This is the minimum set of skills necessary to downregulate dissociation. These are found on page 146 of Christine Forner's book.

Phase One

  • Learning how to ground and uses grounding techniques
  • Learning emotional safety skills
  • Practicing Internal Communication between parts
  • Practicing Regulating Fear
    • Insight into when being scared happens (when dissociation is possible)
    • Getting out of the fear response
    • Understand the difference between the past and present in regard to the fear response
  • Feel feelings without dissociation
  • Emote feelings without dissociation
  • Distinguish between procedurally learned experiences and new experiences
  • Able to take a mental pause
  • Basic empathy
  • Basic self attunement

References

Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations: Trauma-Informed Practices to Facilitate Growth - Christine C. Forner

Dissociation FAQ - International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation

Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults (2011) - International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation

Understanding Integration - Rachel Downing, LCSW © 2003 Sidran Institute.

Dissociative Experiences Scale - II (DES-II) - For printing and laminating

Dissociative Experiences Scale - II (DES-II) - Online version

Integration Measure (IM) - For printing, borrowed from M. Rose Barlow's Thesis.

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